The Mildred & Shirley L. Garrison Geriatric Educat
Outcome
The Mildred & Shirley L. Garrison Geriatric Educat in Lubbock, TX was fined $18,629 by CMS across 2 separate penalties following 48 deficiency citations identified during federal surveys.
Details
The Mildred & Shirley L. Garrison Geriatric Educat (Lubbock, TX) — $18,629 in CMS Fines
Outcome: The Mildred & Shirley L. Garrison Geriatric Educat in Lubbock, TX was fined $18,629 by CMS across 2 separate penalties following 48 deficiency citations identified during federal surveys.
Deficiency areas cited:
- Immediately tell the resident, the resident's doctor, and a family member of situations (injury/decline/room, etc.) that affect the resident.
- Protect each resident from all types of abuse such as physical, mental, sexual abuse, physical punishment, and neglect by anybody.
- Develop and implement policies and procedures to prevent abuse, neglect, and theft.
- Ensure that residents are free from significant medication errors.
- Ensure that residents are fully informed and understand their health status, care and treatments.
- Honor the resident's right to request, refuse, and/or discontinue treatment, to participate in or refuse to participate in experimental research, and to formulate an advance directive.
- Keep residents' personal and medical records private and confidential.
- Honor the resident's right to voice grievances without discrimination or reprisal and the facility must establish a grievance policy and make prompt efforts to resolve grievances.
How Crucible Prevents This
Crucible's continuous compliance monitoring would have flagged the regulatory gaps that led to these CMS fines — through automated survey-readiness checks, real-time deficiency tracking, staff compliance dashboards, and corrective action plan enforcement — preventing the violations before the next federal survey.
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